At least one person is dead after a deputy-involved shooting that shut down an area of northbound I-75 near Bayshore Road Thursday evening.More >>

At least one person is dead after a deputy-involved shooting that shut down an area of northbound I-75 near Bayshore Road Thursday evening.More >>

NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla. -

The sheriff's office has released the name of a man killed in a confrontation with a deputy on I-75 Thursday afternoon.

Carlos Joseph Charles, 28, of Sarasota was driving northbound on the highway near Bayshore Road when he was pulled by two members of the sheriff's office's Highway Interdiction Unit for speeding and an illegal window tint, according to Sheriff Mike Scott.

The sheriff says a four-year-old and a woman were also in the car when it was stopped around 4 p.m.

All were ordered out after a drug dog alerted a deputy that there were drugs inside.

Scott says that one deputy watched the passengers and Charles while the other deputy searched the car.

The sheriff says the deputy searching the car found a large amount of cocaine, and when Charles realized he'd found it, a "violent altercation" occurred. Scott didn't elaborate on what happened between Charles and the deputy.

The end result was the deputy being injured and Charles being fatally shot.

The vehicle ended up in a clump of trees off the roadway, but no one else was injured.

The deputy was taken to the hospital with undisclosed injuries.

"I'm happy to report our deputy is doing well. Our deputy has been released from the hospital he sustained some injury," said Sheriff Scott.

The woman in the vehicle is still being questioned, and the sheriff said he couldn't rule out charges against her.

The child situation is being handled by DCF.

Charles was sentenced to nearly two years in prison in 2008 for cocaine and other charges.